Asperger's and the math stereotype

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basic levels of math, I'm pretty bad, I often switch signs, and reverse numbers.

Up to middle school, things were really hard. From my point of view at least, they taught it all in such an irrational way.

At the higher, abstract levels though, it started to swing my way though. Still slow at basic calculation, but I can make up time with some of the rest.

I love math. I like the intellectual challenge and the feeling of accomplishment when I succeed, and math is kind of my "language". But my memory isn't the best, though.

On the other hand, I really suck at.. "words". Hell, I don't even know how to explain it! Which is an example of what I mean.

for me math was very easy in the past but at the end of the year i forget half of what i did but alot of it came naturally for me never paid attention to the teacher or did home work and would piss the teacher off because i never did any relay calculations on paper despite being the first one done in tests
recently in college ive been struggling with stuff we learned in high school well i have determined why 1 the class pace is far to fast
2 my inability to take good notes despite doing everything i can to keep up hell im even sitting infront and trying to take notes and do home work (well the stuff that gets counted for marks) and i have not passed one quiz yet and its making it hard to keep up in other classes because the home work takes up a lot of time that i could spend on reading for other classes

at this point i guess im asking for suggestions on what todo


also in grade school math was hard i still have problems with doing multiplication and devison quickly (i rely on calculators quite a bit for it )

I read that math majors at the university level are 7 times more likely to be on the spectrum than most students. This is consistent with my casual observation. I believe that strong autistic perception is an advantage for students who take higher level math classes because at the higher levels, math becomes extremely exact and logical. I believe that math becomes much different once a student takes topology and real analysis.

I have about 30 credit hours of math at the university level.

Math for me is another language and I can speak it pretty well. I did math contest when I was young. Am now studying in electrical engineering which involves a lot of math. I just understand so much easily "hardcore" math (Fourrier, Laplace, Waveletts, ...). Sometime for my exam I don't need the formula given by the teacher, I can find a way out on my own.

But, I don't like doing math for "fun", I only use it to prove theory or problem solving. As I said, I use it as a language to translate theory or problem into numbers and formulas.

I'm good at math; I'm about the equivalent to a first year math grad student. I got the award for the most outstanding undergraduate math student, and I wasn't even a math major. I'm not that good at arithmetic, though. I'm pretty slow, because I have to do things step by step; I just can't keep the numbers in my head.

I skipped divisions altogether, and stopped listening in maths class at that period, because the teacher said: oh well, you just try and make up a number, do the whole calculation , and if you find out it didn't fit, do it again with a smaller number, and so on. I thought what, what number am i supposed to start with then, why do i have to come up with it myself, and do that whole boring thing ten times until i get it right? It confused me and made me angry with maths, we're still not back to being friends

I'm lucky that I can count.

I was always told I could never live up to my dream of being a veternarian becuase I have so much difficulty with math. Needless to say I lost all modivation and even though my grades were not perfect to begin with due to a crappy teacher, they got worse and I didn't care. I was always being reminded how bad my math skills were. But whenever someone says that all people with autism or AS are really good at math, I want to strangle that person.

I'm the worst "maths guy" in the history of mankind.

I am no good at maths, I never have been and never will be.

i'm very bad at math and hate it. my brother is also an aspie and pretty good actually.

According to my old school records I was good at math and bad at reading til around 2nd grade then it flipped, and ever since I've been very good at reading and horrible at math.

I have improved some after studying a lot with my mom to pass a test for work but I'm still not that great with math.
Since then I've became a little more aware how math is supposed to work and find it easier after finally learning the 6s, 7s, 8s, and 9s times tables, at age 26. I realized that 'normal' people that know what I had to work hard to learn much later, can figure out things by using what they already know to find answers to problems that are new. That was something I couldn't do with math before. I more or less multiplied by adding from age 12 to age 26 til I learned more times tables and could move up and down them in my head(though I still add up and down too since I don't do math that much on a day to day basis.)

Sometimes I don't even realize just how good at math I am.

To me, I'm normal at math. But for some reason, 99% of the people I know don't understand it. I don't understand how it's possible not to get it. It all just makes sense to me.